Outer Layer Shedding

Body Shedding
Orochimaru (Naruto) emerges with a new body.
Power/Ability to:	Shed one's body or skin.

The ability to shed one's body or skin like a snake. Sub-power of Skin Manipulation.

Also Called

• Molting
• Skin Shedding

Capabilities

The user is capable of shedding their body or skin and emerging with a new body, even after dismemberment.

Applications

• Healing/Health Optimization
• User may emerge with skin of different quality.

Techniques

• Shedding Empowerment

Associations

• Crustacean Physiology
• Insect Physiology
• Regenerative Healing Factor
• Resurrection
• Skin Manipulation
• Snake Physiology

Limitations

• Shedding one's skin takes time to perform in combat.
• May only be able to shed a certain amount of times.
• Process may be physically painful.
• May leave user vulnerable after shedding.

Known Users

Cartoons

• Anodites (Ben 10)
  • Sunny
  • Verdona
• Ssserpent (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
• Eustace (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
• Bushroot (Darkwing Duck)
• Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
• Zoidberg (Futurama)
• Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Spy-Roaches (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)
• Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 series)
• Discord (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic); via Snake Form

Comics

• Husk (Marvel Comics)
• Lizard (Marvel Comics)
• Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)

Live Television/Movies

• Meganulon (Godzilla)
• Viper (The Wolverine)
• Greg Arkin (Smallville)
• Alien Baltan (Ultraman)
• Shapeshifters (Supernatural)
• Super-soldiers (The X-Files)
• Demodogs (Stranger Things)

Manga/Anime

• Korosensei (Assassination Classroom)
• Cyan Sung-Sun (Bleach)
• Hirudegarn (Dragon Ball Z)
• Cell (Dragon Ball Z)
• Sneagator (Kinnikuman)
• Miia (Monster Musume)
• Orochimaru (Naruto)
• Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
• Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto)
• Manda (Naruto)
• Jean Henri Fabre (Read or Die)
• Elm L. Renegade (Embalming: The Tale of another Frankenstein)
• Gyasa (Shinzo/Mashuranbo)
• Pepper (Urusei Yatsura)

RPG

• Transformed Snakes with the Shed Skin ability (Feng Shui)
• Mercurials (Planescape)

Video Games

• Clawgrip (Super Mario Bros. Series)
• Pokemon with Shed Skin ability (Pokemon)
• Rattle Shake (Skylanders)
• Golem (Pokemon)
• Gore Magala (Monster Hunter Series)
• Rusted Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter Series)

Other

• Le Papillon (Grindhouse and Watercolors)

Gallery

The shed skin of Ssserpent (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)

Meganulons (Godzilla) shedding their skin to become Meganula.

One of Bushroot's (Darkwing Duck) empty husks.

Hirudegarn (Dragon Ball Z) sheds his first form.

Cell's (Dragon Ball Z) shed larval form.

Le Papillon (Grindhouse and Watercolors) is prone to shed its form and creates a new one whenever it creates a universe, whatever's left of its old body ranging from fossilized remnants to landforms, natural phenomenon and even living, breathing abstract prosopopeians.

Husk (Marvel Comics) sheds her old skin to create new one with any substance she desires.

The shed skin of Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)

Miia (Monster Musume) shedding the skin on her tail.

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) using this ability to regenerate any damage he suffered.

Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto) using this ability more like a shell that he can reenter.

A shapeshifter (Supernatural) in the process of shedding his skin.

Chong (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series) after shedding his skin.

Viper (The Wolverine) sheds the skin off her face.

During the final stage of his transformation into a super-soldier, Billy Miles (The X-Files) bloodily sheds his skin.

Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) shedding her skin to heal from burns.

Gore Magala (Monster Hunter Series) shedding its scales to become its adult form, Shagaru Magala.

After shedding its rusted skin, Rusted Kushala Daora (Monster Hunter Series) skin becomes extremely vulnerable to attacks until it hardens, which later its named Kushala Daora.

Greg Arkin (Smallville) shedding his skin in the shower.

Anodites like Sunny (Ben 10) can remove thier human skin.

The Lizard (Marvel Comics) sheds his old skin after killing Billy Connors...

...becoming a more reptilian being without the Curt Connors persona holding him back.